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JOHN P. GAGE, OF VINELAND, NEW JERSEY.

BENCH- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed April :23, 1985.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. GAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vineland, in the county of Cumberland and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bench Planes; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinal section of my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the cutter and the pivoted finger-lever removed from the plane. Fig. 3 is a view of the adjusting-screw and cutterbearing removed. Fig. 4 is a detached view of the bearing-plate, and Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the fellow plate and cupsplate with the bearing-screw and casting applied.

This invention has relation to improvements in carpenters planes; and it consists in certain novel devices, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings,theletter A designates the body of the plane, which is formed with an oblique transverse slot, B, for the cutter and its. adjusting devices. 0 is the handle.

D is a metal bearing, which is set into the oblique slot B, and is secured therein. The lower face of this bearing is flush with the bearing-face of the plane-body, and may be made a little concave in its middle portions, or between itsfront and rear bearing-edges. This metal bearing is provided with an eX- tension, E, backward and upward, which is slotted at F, and has a threaded bearing at G for the adjusting-screw H. It is also provided with lateral stops K.

L L are the elongated openings or slots through which the fastening-screws pass. A transverse bearing, m, is provided, usually in rounded or rod form,which is located upward and forward from the main face of the casting, on which the cutter rests.

N is the cutter, slotted at P, and provided PLANE.

Patent No. 323,804, dated August 4,1885.

(McdeL) with an under bearing, R, which is designed to engage the enlarged end a of the adjusting-screw. This bearing descends into the opening B of the casting D when the cutter is applied in position.

S is a lever having its fulcrum-bearing c in the slot of the cutter, and engaging a stud, d, of the bearing B, or of its fellow plate T, which is firmly secured to said bearing It, usually bya screw, 6. The handle of the lever S projects backward and upward within easy reach of the fingers. The object of this lever movement is to enable the operator to adjust the cutter laterally, so that when its cuttingedge is inclined or out of trim a single movement of the lever to the right or left, as the case may require, will correct the deviation and bring the cutting-edge into true relation with the bearing-face of the plane. Other forms of lever-connections may be employed with the cutter, or the adjustment may be made by means of lateral screws, or a screw may be employed, extending downward and forward, to operate an eccentric in connection with the cutter. Many devices to effect this lateral adjustment of the cutter-plate will occur' to those skilled in the art.

Vis the cap-plate, which is adjustable by means of screws 9 g passing through slots h h in the fastening-piece or top casting, V, which carries the bearingscrew Z. This top V is formed with a concave rounded bearing, 70, adapted to engage the transverse rod m and hold the fastening-piece or cap-plate firmly in position.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a plane, the combination of the slotted cutter, the under bearing, B, having a stud, d, and operated by means of the adjustingscrew, the fellow plate, screw connecting the fellow plate and bearing B, lever S, and its fulcrum-bearing 0, arranged in the slot of the cutter, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the slotted cutter, a bearing arranged beneath the same, with-a stud passing through the slot of the said cutter, a fellow plate connected with the said under bearing, the finger-lever, and its fulcrumbearing, as 0, arranged in the slot, whereby In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein IO lateral deviations of the cutting-edge may be presence of two wltnesses. corrected, substantially as specified.

3. A plane having a lever adapted to cor- JOHN P. GAGE. 5 rect deviations in the edge of the cutter, which lever has its lower end pivoted in a longitudi- Witnesses: nal slot of the cutter,and provided with a stud TI-IEO. DIUNGEN, to engage and move laterally a fulcrum-bear- PHILIP C. Mnsi.

ing in the said slot, substantially as specified. 

